Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKINIt seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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